US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons – Part 2

Here is the second part of the recent Day School at the Centre for War Studies that examined the links between the American Civil War and the First  World War. ‘A Veritable Rain of Bullets’: Firepower in the American Civil War and the First World War (Dr Spencer Jones, University of Birmingham) Spencer Jones delivered [...]

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US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons – Part 1

What follows is a critique of a couple of the lectures at the recent Day School at the Centre for War Studies that examined the links between the American Civil War and the First  World War. ‘Two Worcesters, Two Wars: Contrasting Approaches to Recruitment & Mobilisation in the American Civil War and the Great War’ [...]

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Centre for War Studies Spring Day School – US Civil War to First World War Learning the Lessons

War Studies Public Programm The Spring Day School Saturday, 3 March 2012 US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons It is axiomatic in American historiography that the US civil war was the first modern war and that Europe failed to learn the lessons of industrialised conflict and firepower. There are clear parallels [...]

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The John Terraine Lecture at the University of Birmingham

This years John Terraine Lecture at the University of Birmingham’s War Studies Seminar will be delivered by Professor Brian Holden Reid of the War Studies Department, King’s College London. His talk is entitled: The American Civil War and Attrition This event will take place on Tuesday 10 May 2011 at 5:30 pm, Lecture Room 3, [...]

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